At the Drop of Another Hat

At the Drop of Another Hat is musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 revue

Revue

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 by Flanders and Swann

Flanders and Swann

The British duo "Flanders and Swann" were the actor and singer Michael Flanders and the composer, pianist and linguist Donald Swann who collaborated in writing and performing comic songs....

, similar in format to its predecessor, At the Drop of a Hat

At the Drop of a Hat

At the Drop of a Hat is a musical revue by Flanders and Swann, described by them as "An After-Dinner Farrago". In the show, they both sang, accompanied by Swann on the piano. The songs were linked by contemporary social commentary, mostly by Flanders....

. In the show, they both sang, accompanied by Swann on the piano

Piano

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. The songs were linked by contemporary social commentary, mostly by Flanders

Michael Flanders

Michael Henry Flanders OBE, was an English actor, broadcaster, and writer and performer of comic songs. He is best known to the general public for his partnership with Donald Swann performing as the double act Flanders and Swann.-Life and career:Michael Flanders was born in London on March 1, 1922...

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The revue premiered at the Haymarket Theatre

Haymarket Theatre

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 in London on 2 October 1963 and ran until 21 March 1964. It was revived on the West End at the Globe Theatre, from 29 September 1965 to 19 February 1966.

A Broadway

Broadway theatre

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 production played at the Booth Theatre

Booth Theatre

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 from 31 December 1966 to 9 April 1967.

Songs (includes all versions)

First half

• "The Gasman Cometh: A Ballad of Unending Domestic Upheaval (It All Makes Work for the Working Man to Do)"
• "Sounding Brass"
• "From Our Bestiary"
• "Bilbo's Last Song"
• "By Air"
• "Slow Train"
• "A Sloth"
• "Bedstead Men"
• "Los Olividados"
• "More Songs for Our Time"
• "The Rat Race"
• "Sea Fever"
• "Old Hat (Kokoraki)"
• "Ill Wind" - (Mozart's Horn Concerto in E flat major, rondo finale with cadenza)
• "Ostrich Song"
• "First and Second Law"
• "Twice Shy"
• "From Our Bestiary"
• "Say Who You Are (Carter)",

Second half

• "All Gall"
• "Horoscope"
• "Old Hat (Madeira M'Dear)"
• "Wompom"
• "Twenty Tons of TNT"
• "Friendly Duet"
• "In the Bath"
• "Armadillo Idyll"
• "Lovely War"
• "Motor Perpetuo"
• "Built-Up Area"
• "In the Desert"
• "Food for Thought"
• "Prehistoric Complaint"
• "Bedstead Men"
• "Commonwealth Fair"
• "A Song of Patriotic Prejudice"
• "Hippo Encore"
• "Guide to Britten"

Flanders and Swann's Bestiary

Included in the performance of A Drop of Another Hat were several songs about animals. Most of the following songs were not included in the original cast recording, but issued with additional songs on a separate disc:

• "The Warthog"
• "The Seahorse"
• "The Chameleon"
• The Whale (Mopy Dick)"
• "The Sloth"
• "The Rhinoceros"
• "Twosome - Kang and Jag"
• "Dead Ducks"
• "The Elephant"
• "The Armadillo"
• "The Spider"
• "Threesome"
  • "The Duck-Billed Platypus"
  • "The Hummingbird"
  • "The Portuguese Man-of-War"
• "The Wild Boar"
• "The Ostrich"
• "The Wompom"